snowclone: Today ___, tomorrow the world

[Baker, John]

        The lyrics for "Manhattan" on Barry's site refer to My Fair Lady
and South Pacific, which seems unlikely for a 1925 song.


John Baker



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Then, of course, there's the Rogers and Hart (the other LH) version:
http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/manhattan_1925_n
ot_i
ll_take_manhattan/

(And notice who's URL that is!!!
(the other) doug

A variant from Leonard Cohen (the "I'm Your Man" album):

First we take Manhattan,
Then we take Berlin

Refrain of "First we take Manhattan"; full lyrics at
http://www.sing365.com/music/Lyric.nsf/FIRST-WE-TAKE-MANHATTAN-lyrics-Le
onar
d-Cohen/926CCB64249F308848256AF00028CB85.
Also cf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBKV0zVXSE for a very Cohenian
music video with many seagulls.

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